Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...losers. The balding Cowan was unable to make friendships with girls, contented himself instead with gun collecting and muscle building. Cowan's attic bedroom was jammed with rifles, pistols, bayonets, hand grenades and a collection of Nazi memorabilia. The muscle-bound six-footer had his arms tattooed with iron crosses and Nazi eagles. He joined the National States Rights Party, a Georgia-based brigade of bigots (see box following page). "There is nothing lower than blacks and Jews unless it's the police who protect them," Cowan had noted in a book found among his weapons last week...
...built it into my schedule. I do everything else around it," says Illinois Governor James Thompson, 40. The all-important "it" is his exercise routine. The 6-ft. 6-in., 210-lb. Governor makes three trips a week to the Nautilus health club in Springfield, Ill., to pump iron, jog, and work out on elaborate stretching machines. Says he: "This job is a man killer. You can absorb only so many budgets, meetings and job seekers without saying 'I've got to do something where I don't have to think.' " But after an hour...
...veritable iron man in the batter's box and in centerfield, where he played 1795 games for Washington, Buffalo, St. Louis, Louisville, Chicago and Cincinnati during the course of his career. He led the league in 1899 with 633 at bats and in walks with 1901 and 1891, when he had 119. Altogether he had 2044 hits, which gave him a lifetime batting average...
...wage increases. Production quotas on private industry were lifted. (Businesses had not been allowed to produce as much as they could, out of socialistic concern that their owners might get too rich.) The dominant state-owned sector of industry, which deals in such key goods as steel, coal and iron ore, was enabled to cut through the red tape that has strangled its growth...
...telephone company office and win a round of applause from the queue of bill payers. Briskly propelled by Director Kotcheff (The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz), they skim through their adventures as innocently as a pair of prankish collegians. The only laws they are unable to flout are the iron laws of comic contrivance. They must, it seems, receive an implausible invitation to a party at the offices of the firm that fired Dick, for only then can they get at a huge slush fund that rests in the safe of Dick's ex-boss (played...